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Playlist: Fluids made easy: 06 Fundamentals of potential flow theory
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As one simplest but yet a most important flow, the uniform flow is the most flow in the practical applications: the airplane travelling in the air; ships travelling on seas; cars running on the road; balls travelling in the air... As a uniform flow, the basic expression of a uniform flow is the constant velocity. in this talk, the uniform flow is proven as a potential and incompressible flow, and then we can show how to obtain the potential function for the uniform flow.

In the talk, I try to answer the following questions:
Why we need to study the uniform flow?
the features of uniform flow: uniform flow is a potential and incompressible flow
to obtain the potential function
to find the stream function
Bernoulli's equation to obtain the pressure in the uniform flow